I want to add that I get TONS of support black readers and they are NOT boycotting me in any way. I am just telling a true story...
My team reached out to nearly 400 young adult bloggers. Of those bloggers I think four of them were people of color. None of those four responded and that is cool. But the ONLY one of the 400 bloggers that requested that they be removed from the list was a person of color. What are the odds? Now mind you that bloggers purposely request that publicist, authors, and agents contact them for reviews contest or what ever. That is what we did. You guys have hopefully seen my trailer and website. Both are professionally done and I am proud of them so it was not like I came to this person with visual garbage.
It is of no consequence because it was totally her right to do so and she probably did not even know that I was black. Hell, some people must hate "Marvelous World" that is just the way it is and I am sure they may boycott future books while some love and cherish the series. I just thought it was RATHER ironic in light of just hearing of a "Black on Black Boycott."
I also had another situation were a person of color hated than showed some love, so I am not upset. I just feel that if the reasoning of why this person fronted at first was true all content and blog posts would have to be generated and about members... Okay that really was about nothing.
I am rising in popularity and I will try to feature other creators and the first thing that will draw me to another creators work is the QUALITY of artwork. If the artwork SUCKS it will not go up on my blog (but my blog is no tall that popular right now so who cares). I just have a thing about how we represent ourselves to the creative public. We are already fighting an uphill battle. We need to make sure we visually look like we deserve to be on a book shelf. With that said I have that covered now I am about to work on my writing...
Any thoughts?
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